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- Title
- First use of kiwi as unofficial national symbol?
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- Manatū Taonga, the Ministry for Culture and Heritage
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- NZHistory
- Description
The New Zealand Free Lance printed a J.C. Blomfield cartoon in which a plucky kiwi morphed into a moa as the All Blacks defeated Great Britain 9–3 in the first rugby test between Motherland and colony. This may have been the first use of a kiwi to symbolise the nation in a cartoon.
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- Article
- Date created
- 20 August 1904
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- NZHistory
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- https://nzhistory.govt.nz/page/first-use-kiwi-unofficial-national-symbol
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- rugby / cartoon / national identity
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